by katie | May 28, 2011 | Annuals, Farming, Fine Gardening, Flower growing, Gardening, Organic Gardening, Perennials, Self sustainability, Shrubs, Trees, Uncategorized, Vegetable Gardening
As the garden matures and perennials divide and spread, it becomes harder to just rototill through a bed. I find myself forking more and more of the beds this year. I think only three out of twenty, forty foot rows were rototilled by my husband this year. The rest had...
by katie | May 18, 2011 | Farming, Fine Gardening, Flower growing, Gardening, Organic Gardening, Self sustainability, Vegetable Gardening
I don’t believe in the row method of planting a crop. Maybe because I’m just not that linear, but I’m convinced at least here in California, that it’s more efficient to grow the biointensive method.Planting areas of plants fairly close...
by katie | May 18, 2011 | Cooking, Farming, Gardening, Organic Gardening, Self sustainability, Vegetable Gardening
I planted purple onions together in groups of three or four small seedlings. I often do this and harvest them as scallions for salads. But this year I never got around to harvesting them and they developed into these cute mini purple onions. Yum, they are going into...
by katie | May 10, 2011 | Baking, Cooking, Farming, Flower growing, Gardening, Organic Gardening, Self sustainability, Trees, Vegetable Gardening
As this year shapes up for us, we are finding ourselves working hard to finish infrastructure development and to do it with a cash flow problem. TRADE has become our middle name, maybe our surname . We are trading for carpentry help to install our outdoor kitchen. So...
by katie | May 7, 2011 | Farming, Organic Gardening, Self sustainability
Our horses Belle and Buttercup Happy Chickens!
by katie | Apr 26, 2011 | Farming, Organic Gardening, Self sustainability
I know this seems harsh, but here in the self sufficiency reality, we need wood, we have trees. This redwood tree is approx. 40″ in diameter and 150 years old. It was growing in a thicket of thin fir trees off by itself. There are many other clumps of large...
